Broken plastic nuts

goddess · 2008-12-08T21:05:20+00:00

About six weeks ago I had a new bath and shower fitted. The other daythe bath taps came loose and I am now able to lift the taps up andtwist them around!! This has caused leaking through to my kitchenceiling as water has being getting through. Tonight the plumber whofitted the bathroom came back to have a look and said that both of theplastic nuts seem to have broken (one of them into three pieces) andsays that it is our fault for buying taps from homebase and that thetaps he would've supplied would have come with metal nuts and thiswouldn't have happened!I argued with him but he wouldn't back down that two nuts wouldn't justbreak of their own accord through me just using a tap as a tap! He washaving none of it and said that he would charge me £40 to replacethem!! It's a load of codswallop if you ask me! I think he broke themwhen he put them on which resulted in him putting sealant around thetaps so that they would temporarily stay in place.Can anybody tell me whether plastic nuts are unreliable as he says theyare?? I find it hard to believe that they would just break after onlybeing used a few times!Thanks